How native speakers pronounce “girl”

really wanted a girl so my parents who were on a waiting list got a call in the middle of the

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I heard a great story recently -- I love telling it -- of a little girl who was in a drawing lesson. She was six, and she was at the back, drawing,

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

She was six, and she was at the back, drawing, and the teacher said this girl hardly ever paid attention, and in this drawing lesson, she did.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

She went over to her, and she said, "What are you drawing?" And the girl said, "I'm drawing a picture of God." And the teacher said, "But nobody knows what God looks like."

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

And the teacher said, "But nobody knows what God looks like." And the girl said, "They will in a minute." (Laughter)

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

He was really upset on the plane. He said, "I'll never find another girl like Sarah." And we were rather pleased about that, frankly --

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

I was shy and I was plain. I was not the kind of girl whose typewriter was carried by men who looked

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I went to Bali this past year and finally spent some one-on-one time with that little girl who left Robbins, Illinois all those years ago.

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(Applause and cheers) I'm just a girl that wanted herself and her family out of poverty, and once we was out,

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(Applause) When I think about the 11-year-old girl I once was,

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instead of negotiating. Tells us, Helen isn't such a terrible name for a Pakistani girl, is it? (Laughter)

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As you can see, it has pictures of my grandparents holding me as a little girl, cards from clients,

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and in fact, it's going to be the Woodstock of Black Girl Healing. (Laughter)

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you get sprung! When a girl walks in you pull up tough Cause you noticed that her butt was stuffed

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where they played my mashup of AI Johnny Cash singing the song "Barbie Girl," to which Representative Matt Gaetz replied,

Is AI Ruining Music? | Dustin Ballard | TED · TED

So, Chung has had people yell at her until she cried, including a nine-year-old girl, who didn't like the whipped cream design that Chung did on her hot chocolate.

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"Hm. Everybody knows you're a beautiful, talented Black girl. But what do I do with a beautiful, talented Black girl?

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Everybody knows you're a beautiful, talented Black girl. But what do I do with a beautiful, talented Black girl? Do I put you in a movie with Tom Cruise?

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He said that everybody knew that I was a beautiful, talented Black girl. (Laughter)

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We work in public schools in different parts of the countries we work in. And she called me and she was telling me about a girl who had survived violence and she was pregnant four months.

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And the girl said, "Thank you." And she did.

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those people in their time who stood up so this little black girl could vine as i celebrate and call their names all

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Got an AI boyfriend. And I may have programmed it to call me Baby Girl. (Laughter)

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and your poppa is a warrior, and you are the girl with small hands and big eyes who never stops asking for more."

If I should have a daughter ... | Sarah Kay

and I turned around to see this giant girl in a hoodie sweatshirt emerge from the crowd. She was maybe eight feet tall

If I should have a daughter ... | Sarah Kay

"I can. I can do this." And that was thanks to a girl in a hoodie. Step two was the moment I said,

If I should have a daughter ... | Sarah Kay

or your community, who will listen. And maybe even a giant girl in a hoodie who will connect with what you've shared.

If I should have a daughter ... | Sarah Kay

I do not want a stanza for a son nor a line for a little girl nor a footnote for a child who doesn't fit into this world.

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is a poem that was written by Nathalia Crane. Nathalia Crane was a little girl from Brooklyn. When she was 10 years old in 1927,

Natalie Merchant sings old poems to life

♫ And 28 or nine -- ♫ ♫ Buy myself a little orphan girl ♫ ♫ And bring her up as mine. ♫

Natalie Merchant sings old poems to life

the definition of sex was extremely narrow. It essentially meant penetrative sex between a guy and a girl. And masturbation wasn't a topic of conversation.

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I discovered the part they were protecting, the little girl inside me who was so scared that she wasn't enough.

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kudos, you did that, Al! You go, girl!” You do all the things.

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I love her so much. Little Brown Bevy is a nerdy girl, and so I let my nerdy pursuits come out to play.

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including Indian aunties that were just so happy an Indian girl was running. But on election day, the polls were right,

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by building an app to help Americans get to the polls. Or a 16-year-old girl who built an algorithm to help detect whether a cancer is benign or malignant

Teach girls bravery, not perfection | Reshma Saujani

is Olga Murray. This California girl at 60 started working in Nepal to save young girls

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Growing up far away from here, as a little girl I was deadly curious about everything alive.

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He was disgusted when talking to me, as if he was saying to himself, "If this was the last girl on Earth, I wouldn't look at her!" What's the meaning of saying "menu" in Arabic?

Suzanne Talhouk: Don't kill your language

What's the meaning of saying "menu" in Arabic? Two words made a Lebanese young man judge a girl as being backward and ignorant.

Suzanne Talhouk: Don't kill your language

I've come to be a flirting enthusiast. Since I was a little girl, I've been obsessed with romance.

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Or Edinburgh. And the little girl who arises out of their union will of course be not Korean or German

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